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Farsi · Pronunciation Guide
How do you pronounce "ایده" in Farsi?
"ee-DEH" — two syllables, stress on the second, which ends in a short open 'eh', not a silent 'e' like in the English word 'idea'.
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Stress falls on the final syllable de; this is a modern loanword (ultimately from French idée), but it still follows the regular Persian pattern of final-syllable stress.
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ایدهی خوبی دارید.
Ide-ye khubi dārid.
You have a good idea.
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ایدهی خوبی دارید ("You have a good idea") shows the ezafe -ye linking ایده to خوبی ("good"); the extra -y- glide is inserted because ایده already ends in a vowel. دارید is "you have," formal or plural.
Where English speakers slip
Treating the final ه like a silent English 'e' (as in the English word "idea") is the giveaway mistake — in Persian it's a fully pronounced short 'eh' sound, never dropped.